Bottle-stopper



(No Model.)

H. ANDERSON.

BOTTLE STOBPER.

No. 279,310. Patented June 12,1883

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC HENRY'B. ANDERSON, OF ST. LOUIS, Missouri- BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part oi Letters Patent No. 279,310, dated June 12, 1883.

Application filed October 5, 1881. (X model.)

' To all whom it may concern:

I means by which, in stopping bottles with outside stoppers, the body of the stopper will be held within the bottle-mouth and below the top thereof, the stopper being so secured to an ordinary wire cork-fastener that when said fastener is swung over the bottle-mouth to secure the stopper :1.- springing pressure will be exerted on said stopper.

To this end the invention consists in securing in the loop of a bottle-stopper a bail, which is also so attached to the locking-wire that the stopper will be forced to its seat with a springing pressure.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved bottle and stopper. Aportion of the bottle-head is broken away to show the position of the stopper when closed upon its seat. Fig. 2 shows in elevation the bottle and stopper, the latter thrown off to discharge the contents. Fig. 3 isacentral vertical section of the closed bottle.

A represents a mineral or soda water bottle with my enlarged upper opening or chamber, the walls of which are practically vertical and extend down about three-eighths of an inch from the top edge to the beveled annular seat a.

B is the stopper. As seen in Figs. 1 and 3, it is countersunk into the mouth of the bottle. I make the body of the stopper preferably of white metal but it may be made of glass. Thewire loop or eye I) is molded into the body while in the process of formation.

are now thrown from the corks of soda or' mineral water bottles.

My improved bottle is peculiarly adapted to be closed by cork stoppers, as the lower end or a cork (which should be not more than halt the length of those ordinarily used) can be tightly held on the annular seatn by means of the locking-wire E, thus avoiding the necessity of steaming or soaking the corks, as they close the bottle by means of being pressed endwise on the annular seat, and not by lateral expansion against the walls of the neck, as heretofore practiced. The body (the greater part) of the cork being below the top of the bottle, it is'supported against lateral displacement by the walls of the enlarged chamber, and on throwing off the locking-wire the cork can easily be removed from its seat without the aid of a corkscrew.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, substantially as specified, of a stopper, as B, with the locking-wire E and bail C, said bail passing through a loop of the stopper and attached to the upper loops of wire E.

HENRY B. ANDERSON.

' Witnesses:

GEO. J. 1VIURRAY, D.-S. OLIVER. 

